The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Nonpareil Book, 78): 10 (Nonpareil Books, 10)

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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Nonpareil Book, 78): 10 (Nonpareil Books, 10)

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Nonpareil Book, 78): 10 (Nonpareil Books, 10)

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I had purchased it because I liked the name of the book and its strong patterned cover as well as the name of its author. The same man who enjoyed explicating the most arcane allusions in Pound’s impenetrabilia also observed, earnestly and beautifully, “Two lives we lead: in the world and in our minds. It is like being in the room with a charmingly intelligent man who has found a big subject in several hundred books.

Henry Award, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel award for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.In this collection, Guy Davenport serves as the reader's guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. But that is why I enjoy books like this, they are worth reading because they expand my appreciation for the beauty and depth of language, books, and the imagination. A pure display of unmatched intellect which never ceases to unveil art and ideas previously unknown. The same man who enjoyed explicating the most arcane allusions in Pound’s impenetrabilia also observed, earnestly and beautifully, ‘Two lives we lead: in the world and in our minds. One of Davenport’s most memorable pronouncements was that modernism represents “a renaissance of the archaic,” and therein lies its saving power.

Marcel Siegler explores the dialectical relationship between human needs and desires, the demands and requirements of the built world, and the forms of organization that hold both humans and the built world together. He can make you yearn to read or look again at neglected masters like the poets Charles Olsen and Louis Zukofsky and the painters Balthus and Charles Burchfield. The Geography of the Imagination turned out to be my stimulating introduction to Guy Davenport, the multifaceted American man of letters. He speculates about the meaning of modernity, but he also recounts his heroic attempts to extinguish a flaming Jean-Paul Sartre (the famed existentialist had carelessly jammed a lighted pipe in his pocket) and his fruitless efforts to learn Old English from a professor who talked to his toes (the mumbler’s name was J. I always seemed to find myself book browsing on rainy afternoons when I would wander up the book shelved hallway into my bedroom where, lying aslant my bed, I'd dip into the bottom shelf of my large bookcase there, in the semi-darkness, and lazily cruise in and out of various volumes.Without modernity, after all, there would be no modernism, and without modernism, there would be no hope.

Because of this collapse (which may yet prove to be a long interruption), the architectonic masters of our time have suffered critical neglect or abuse, and if admired are admired for anything but the structural innovations of the work.But, no doubt, sitting elsewhere, in well-used glory, well-thumbed, annotated with industrious pencilled scribbles, every essay pawed and pored over and fondly loved.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. More than its erudition, which seems inexhaustible and impossible; more than its quality of attention, animated in prose exact and alive and authoritative; more even than its elected awes, what distinguishes Guy Davenport’s criticism is its steadfastness in—and to—tradition.It was Pound’s determination to obliterate such a configuration of time and history, to treat what had become a world of ghosts as a world eternally present. An intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time “Anyone who, in our age of disbelief, longs to believe in God will find Mr.



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